Where does “tuyệt vời” come from?

tuyệt vời (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vôi, from Proto-Vietic k-puːr, from Proto-Mon-Khmer knpur — lime.

tuyệt vời (Vietnamese): wonderful; splendid

Definitions

  1. wonderful; splendid

Ancestry of “tuyệt vời”, step by step

tuyệt vời traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vôi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevôilime
2Proto-Vietick-puːrlime
3Proto-Mon-Khmerknpurlime

via Vietnamese tuyệt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetuyệtto cut off; to exhaust; to use up; to reach the...
Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer knpur →Every word from Proto-Vietic k-puːr →Every word from Vietnamese vôi →
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